Questel strategically calculates emissions across 80 business units worldwide with Sweep

Key Takeaways

• Questel’s priority was gathering as much high-quality data as possible on the biggest and highest emitting business units
• Sweep enables business-wide collaboration, so all levels can understand and contribute to carbon reduction plans
• Questel collects data by country and by unit size, to produce a comprehensive carbon footprint, informing their roadmap
• The heads of business units can now understand, disclose and act on carbon emissions

Background

Questel is a global provider of intellectual property solutions with 80 business units worldwide. They’ve been setting ESG targets since 2015, and in the last few years have started managing their carbon emissions –first in France and now across global operations. They’re also a member of the UN Global Compact, an initiative that promotes the adoption of sustainable and socially responsible policies in businesses.

Challenge

After conducting a first carbon footprint assessment of their French offices, Questel was looking for a solution to streamline data collection for all their 80 business units across the world. 
“Questel is dedicated to a future of sustainability and having a positive impact on the planet. We take our ESG goals very seriously and have been taking steps towards them since the Paris Agreement,” says Pascal Magnier, Marketing, Communications & CSR director at Questel.

The first step for most companies is to provide adequate tools and resources to team leaders so they know how to find relevant information on greenhouse gas emissions.

For large, global organizations like Questel, leveraging business intelligence is a no-brainer – to speed up data analysis, get an overview of global emissions, and implement a reduction strategy as soon as possible. This also builds preparedness for current and upcoming climate disclosure regulations which are becoming top-of-mind for investors and CEOs.

“We had conducted a lot of work to achieve the Social and Governance pillars of our ESG targets and were looking for a solution that would help us achieve our sustainability objectives, especially in carbon footprint management. We’re committed to reducing our impact on the planet – starting with emission reduction across all scopes 1, 2, and 3,” says Pascal Magnier, Marketing, Communications & CSR director at Questel.

Solution

The first carbon footprint assessment of a large, global organization needs to be strategic: it’s about getting as much high-quality data as possible on the biggest and most emitting business units. In a few months of using Sweep, Questel:

• Built a data collection plan by country and unit size to create a carbon footprint map comprehensive enough to inform the company’s emission reduction roadmap
• Collected carbon data for global business units and connect them to Questel France’s first carbon footprint assessment
• Provided carbon tools and resources to heads of business units to empower them to track, disclose, and act on carbon emissions